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3. Physical Geography for South African Schools ; by Alex. 

 L. Du Ton. Pp. xii, 250 ; map, 66 figures. Cambridge, 1912 

 (The University Press). — Mr. DuToit's little volume possesses the 

 characteristics of a satisfactory text-book in concise statement, 

 ample verbal and pictorial illustrations, and pleasing appearance. 

 To those interested in South Africa the book will be very accept- 

 able, for without it the physiographic data of this interesting 

 region must be gathered from technical and general reports. The 

 physiographic map of South Africa (bound with the book), con- 

 structed from all available data, is a particularly valuable contri- 

 bution, h. e. a. 



4. Notes on fossils from limestone of Steeprock Lake, Ontario; 

 by Charges D. Walcott. Mem. No. 28, Geological Survey Can- 

 ada, Appendix, 6 pages, 2 plates, 1912. — In this short paper is 

 announced the remarkable discovery of "organisms related to the 

 sponges, or possibly to forms possessing characters of both the 

 sponges and Archozocyathinoi^ found by Lawson in 1911 at the 

 base of the Lower ILuronian, in the Steeprock limestones northwest 

 of Atikokan,On tario, on the Canadian Northern railway. Walcott 

 says, " The Archaeocyathinse are of late lower Cambrian age, and if 

 the stratigraphic position were not well determined I should be 

 inclined to consider Atikolcania [new genus] as a lower Cam- 

 brian genus." These cone-shaped, thick-walled fossils with a 

 small central and apparently open cavity, attain a diameter of 

 at least two inches. The two new sj)ecies are A. lawsoni and 

 A. irregularis. c. s. 



5. A report on some recent collections of fossil Coleoptera from 

 the Miocene shales of Florissant. Bull. State Univ. Iowa, Vol. 

 vi, No. 3, pp. 3-38, pis. i-vi, 1912. On some fossil rhyncho- 

 phorous Coleoptera from Florissant, Colorado. Bull. Amer. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., Vol. xxxi, Art. iv, pp. 41-55, pis. i-iv, 1912. — Two 

 interesting papers by Professor H. F. Wickham on beetles from 

 the lake deposits of Miocene age occurring about Florissant, Col- 

 orado. It is the author's intention to describe all of the beetles 

 from this most interesting locality. The Rhynchophora are a 

 dominant type oi beetles in Miocene time. The author sees no 

 direct relationship between the Florissant forms and those of 

 Central America, as noted by Scudder, but finds the affinities to 

 be with those of the United States. c. s. 



6. Glacial Man in England:- — The Geological Magazine for 

 April (Vol. IX, No. IV), 1912, contains two articles of interest in 

 connection with the reported finding of a human skeleton in the 

 glacial deposits of Ipswich. George Slater (Occurrence of a 

 Human Skeleton in Glacial Deposits at Ipswich, pp. 164-168) 

 examines the geological evidence, discussing the observations and 

 interpretation of Mr. Moir, Mr. Whitaker, Dr. Marr, and Profes- 

 sor Keith. The conclusion is reached : 



"The evidence as to the position of the bones seems to be 

 unmistakable ; they were found partly in the Boulder-clay and 

 partly in the sand. It is difficult to understand how this could 



